The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-27

CAPITAL NOTES.
Senator Ingalls, Takes the Floor on
the Fishery Question.
England Must Respect Inter- Ma
t1onal Treaties
Or Answer Why at the Point Of the
Bayonet.
Death Melted Out to q Revenue In
former in Georgia.
An Embszzler Brought to Kansas
for Trial.
A Fatal Boiler Explosion Occurs in
Pennsylvania.
Or Answer Why at the Point Of the
Bayonet.
Death Melted Out to q Revenue In
former in Georgia.
An Embszzler Brought to Kansas
for Trial.
A Fatal Boiler Explosion Occurs il
Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The senatt
bill concerning offices of the third-class
providing that they shall not bt
changed into postofices of the fourth
class where the gross receipts amount tt
81 900 year, or where bond receipt:
and the commissions constituting post
masters compensation amount to 81 600
was, on motion of Wilson of low, takeI
from the calendar.
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.-At 1 90 the
senate. on motion OF Edmunds, proceeded
to the consideration of senate bill to au-
thorize the president Of the United States
to protect and defend the rights of Ameri.
can fishing vessels. American fishermen
American trading and other vessels il
certain case
Ingalls, thought these fishery Difficult
ties must ultimately be settled either by
negotiations or by war. This measure
is distinctly one OF retaliation. It wa
an eye for an eye, q tooth for . tooth, q
fish tor q fish, insult for insult, wrong
for wrong. He thought 1t important be-
fore the senate was called upon to vote
should advise the senate whether this
measure was intended to be pacific OF
hostile; whether il was, IL eff sct, an invi-
tatiOn to negotiate, or practically decla-
ration OF war. There was no use in dis
gulsing 9 proposition as there was
q feeling Of Irritation, (the real party ia
interest being Great Britain and not Can
adA) which at any moment. If the present
attitude was continued. was liable TO lead
10 ~ vsnInhS rfrnV1 NJ Az
ASPIRATION, and this into open hostility.
II was therefore of very great importance
that at the outset the senate should under
stand whether the bill was Intended as 6
pacific or hostile measure. He quoted
some sentences from report of the COM
mittee on foreign relations and
remarked that the countries
have been inundated with
blood on less provocAtion The conduct
of the Dominion and OF Great Britain
according to this 1eporO was sufficient TO
Justify and warrant a declaration Of war
on the part of the United States.
1t was a violation not only of treaty
rights guaranteed by repeated conven-
lions but it showed purpose ON the
part of the government of Canada and
of her majesty's government to harass,
annoy and destroy American fishing
interest, simply for the purpose either
of private gain or of some public advan-
tage. 1t appeared to him that in view
of those grave allegations and the
irritation and discomfort known to ex-
ist between the two countries the re-
porting of measure which authorized
the president to enter simply on a pro-
cess of retaliation was hardly consist
ent with the gravity of the situation.
1t was a dangerous counsel to authorize
the president to continue in the same
line of conduct and policy with the in
evitable result either of final
negotiations for the purpose of
settling these questions, or else
of its rights under the treaty of 1913.
He thought it would be better and more
in accordance with the dignity of the
subject and with the morality which
ought to prevail among nations as
among men, to declare as the cOnVic-
ton of the senate that the relations be-
tween the countries are such as to re-
quire negotiations, that there should be
authority not to issue letters of marque
and reprisal, but to select commission
to consider the subject, and if possible
to- reach some basis of understanding
between Great Britain, Canada and the
United States in regard to the fisher
les.
Frye said Ingalls, seemed to forget
that Canada was playing the same
role now which she has played twice
before. She played it but for one pur-
pose, and that was to secure negOtia.
tons for reciprocate treaties, and these
reciprocate treaties had turned out tt
the disadvantage of the United States
and to the advantage of Canada. He
believed it his duty to group the out
RACES which had been committed by
Canada within six months, and then hC
would let the senator from Kansas In
CALLS say whether or not he Thoughts
the United States ought to reSOr
at once to negotiations. Mr.. Frye pro
ceeded to particulariZe many of TIT
outrages to which American fishing
vessels had been subjected to in Cana
! dian waters. Among them was cas-
of an American vessel, which ha(
brought into a Canadian port clever
shipwrecked sailors and had been re
fused the right to purchase barrel o
-four to keep her crew from starving
He declared that the annals of history
even of the Feeji islands, might b
searched without finding a case s.
brutal and inhuman. He also quote
| the case of the Marion Grimes, a
American schooner, whose flag wa
hauled down by Captain Quigley, of tn
Canadian cutter, Clipper. All thes
/
| attention of the British government
That government knew the utter inhu
manity of these cases, and knew tina
| outrageS had been committed in dicta
ton of law, as well as of good neigh
borhood.
Vest inquired of Frye whether in tn
case of the hauling down of the Amer
can flag the government of Great Brit
ain endorsed that action of Capital
n -1nsath he
that government had not eXpreSSl
denounced the act and apologized for Il
He read from the report a note froI
the English foreign Office to the Cana
dian government on the subject.
EdmundS suggested that Capital
Quigley was still in the Canadian go'
ernment's service.
Mr.. Frye quoted from a recent st;
tute passed by the dominion govern
ment in still further hostility to An
erican fishermen, and said that tn:
legislation had been approved by Il
British government. The hope, Their
/ fore, that Great Britain would do VIII:
was fair and just was destroye,
and it might have been known that TIL
would have been the result. There
not a line, he said, in the history
Great Britain for the last thirty yea
that gave the slightest reason to b
lieve that in the pursuit of gain and
the pursuit of trade she::would ever pc
; NIT another to stand in the way of b
progress. Every one of the cases he Ia
referred to was in violation of the spin
/; of the treaty, for out of five of the
four of them were In violation of Il
letter of the treaty of 1918 al
d every one Of them was in violation
/ the rules of good neighborhood, of Il
civilization of the day and of the unde
standing of all civilized nations, as
the rights of foreign ships in the
ports. but that the American peor
knew that they were sixty miIlii
J; strong. They knew they were &
richest nation on earth: they knew tn,
power and would humiliate thel